Saturday, 8 November 2014

Lego Minifigures – Rock Star (Series 12)

YEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! I WANNA RAWWWWWWK!

We’ve had a couple of rocker characters in the minifigures
range before – the Punk Rocker back in series 4, and the Rocker Girl from series 7 who
was totally
not Jem. But this is our first heavy metal guy – and having been a huge
heavy metal guy myself in the past, I was pretty pumped to see this minifigure
get released.

The tampoing on this guy isn’t super intricate, but there is
a lot of it. It's basically a whole lot of silver dots to replicate the
standard features you’d expect on a studded leather outfit – the lapels, the
belt -- it’s even got the zips on the wrist. His hair has a metallic silver
streak in it, which would serve well if you are keen to make some kind of glam
rock custom. The hairstyle kind of reminds me of Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe, but
I don’t think it’s specifically based on him.

He comes with one accessory – a red guitar, which looks to
be a new piece. The guitar has a swirly circular pattern on it, which is not
dissimilar to Zakk Wylde’s guitars, and the red is reminiscent of Van Halen’s
legendary Frankenstrat.

So this dude is pretty cool in a generic 1980s metal kind of
way – but as we see above, remove the hair, and you have Rob
Halford, legendary lead singer of Judas Priest – sans goatee and head
tattoo, admittedly, but it’s close enough to pass for my collection. In fact,
if you bought a bunch of these guys, you could pretty much recreate Judas Priest! This is
particularly fitting, because Halford and co did a huge amount to popularise
the leather look, which I suppose went on to reach its logical (or illogical) extreme
with black metal.

Overall verdict – fantastic minifigure on its own, even
better once the hairpiece is removed to turn him into Rob Halford. Great
effort, Lego!